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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. Let’s build technology that facilitates extraordinary teaching and learning.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. We asked teachers what they want from edtech. Educational Technology Support! Here's what they said.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the implications it has for a digital classroom.

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So can technology support higher order thinking? I would say YES it can SUPPORT and even ENCOURAGE higher order thinking. For analysis, try presenting students with data. A good tech tool to support this would be graphing software. Can you think of other ways technology can support higher order thinking?

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From pencils to pixels: Tech is shaping the future of education

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Adaptive learning Adaptive learning technologies are another transformative aspect of accessibility in education and have the power to revolutionize the traditional classroom experience. Adaptive learning technology provides insights into data to help teachers understand students’ learning processes and patterns.

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The role of technology in the PYP

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In addition to these general uses, PYP teachers should also use technology to aid the development of international mindedness, support inquiry learning and to help students to reach deeper understandings. How does technology support the development of international mindedness? How does technology support inquiry?

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Teacher Self-Reflection is Hard. Here’s How Technology Can Help

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Technology such as AI Coach by Edthena can serve as a teacher self-reflection tool. Through self-observation, analysis, and classroom action planning, teachers can utilize the AI Coach platform technology to make their self-reflection more effective. Teacher self-reflection should include identifying what’s going right.

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3 Questions That Still Boggle Educators, Technologists and Researchers

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Government officials and investors, he argued, must push research agencies and edtech companies to develop well-designed, evidence-based products that can scale quickly to all students. Questions over the use and efficacy of technology in the classroom, and how quickly tools can be scaled, haven’t fully been resolved.